Sorry to say I lost the napkin on which Nicola Wolf, record keeper, wrote the recipe for Comet Cocktail No. 3. But it was created by Vince of Arnaud’s French 75 Bar, and it contained gin, Campari, and, I think, creme de cassis. (This was actually his third version of the cocktail; Vince is such a perfectionist that he wouldn’t even let us taste the first two.)
Here, Vince seeks to recreate the Southern night sky in a glass. The lemon peel is the comet blazing through the sky. I can vouch that it tasted heavenly.
If you’ve never been to Arnaud’s French 75, by the way, too bad for you. Vince, the bartender has recently returned to New Orleans from San Francisco. He couldn’t stay away.